{"id":229093,"date":"2026-03-31T02:14:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T00:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-former-otavi-hr-officer-granted-n10-000-bail-over-self-promotion-scheme\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:14:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T00:14:34","slug":"namibia-former-otavi-hr-officer-granted-n10-000-bail-over-self-promotion-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-former-otavi-hr-officer-granted-n10-000-bail-over-self-promotion-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Former Otavi HR Officer Granted N$10 000 Bail Over Self-Promotion Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\"><em>A former human resources (HR) officer at the Otavi Town Council has been granted bail of N$10 000 after being arrested by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">It is alleged that Ernst Gaoab attempted to promote himself to a non-existent position of HR manager.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">According to the ACC, Gaoab, who had been acting in the chief executive position, is accused of abusing power for personal gain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">He was arrested on 23 March and charged under Section 43(1) of the Anti-Corruption Act, which relates to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603300769.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former human resources (HR) officer at the Otavi Town Council has been granted bail of N$10 000 after being arrested by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). It is alleged that Ernst Gaoab attempted to promote himself to a non-existent position of HR manager. According to the ACC, Gaoab, who had been acting in the chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":229094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,7900,10683,9157,4706,724,257,10869,54044,11079,54045,254],"class_list":["post-229093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bail","tag-granted","tag-n10","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-officer","tag-otavi","tag-scheme","tag-selfpromotion","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}